See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:AUGUSTUS See also:CUMBERLAND
, DuxE of (1721-1765), son of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:George II. and See also:Queen See also:Caroline, was See also:born on the 15th of See also:April 1721, and when five years of See also:age was created See also:duke of See also:Cumberland
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His See also:education was well attended to, and his courage and capacity in outdoor exercises were notable from his See also:early years
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He was intended by the king and queen for the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:lord -high See also:admiral, and in 1740 he sailed as a volunteer in the See also:fleet under the command of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Norris; but he quickly became dissatisfied with the See also:navy, and early in 1742 he began a military career
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In See also:December 1742 he was. made a See also:major-See also:general, and in the following See also:year he first saw active service in See also:Germany
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George II. and the " See also:martial boy " shared in the See also:glory of See also:Dettingen (See also:June 27), and Cumberland, who was wounded in the See also:action, displayed an See also:energy and valour; the See also:report of which in See also:England founded his military popularity After the See also:battle he was made See also:lieutenant-general
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In 1745, having been made See also:captain-general of the See also:British See also:land forces at See also:home and in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, the duke was again in See also:Flanders as See also:commander-inchief of the allied British, Hanoverian, See also:Austrian and Dutch troops
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Advancing to the See also:relief of Tournay, which was besieged. by See also:Marshal See also:Saxe, he engaged that See also:great general in the battle of See also:Fontenoy (q v.) on the 1 rth of May
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It cannot now be doubted that, had the duke been supported by the See also:allies in his marvellously courageous attack on the See also:superior positions of the See also:French See also:army, Fontenoy would not have been recorded as a defeat to the British arms
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He himself. was in the midst of the heroic See also:column which penetrated the French centre, and his conduct of the inevitable See also:retreat was unusually cool and skilful
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Notwithstanding the severity of his discipline, the See also:young duke had the See also:power to inspire his men with a strong See also:attachment to his See also:person and a very lively esprit de See also:corps
.
As a general his courage and See also:resolution were not sufficiently tempered with. sagacity and tact; but he displayed an energy and power in military affairs which pointed him out to the British See also:people as the. one commander upon whom they could rely to put a decisive stop to the successful career of See also:Prince See also:Charles See also:Edward in the See also:rebellion, of 1745–1746
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John (See also:Earl) See also:Ligonier wrote of him at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time: " Ou je suis fort trompe ou it se forme la un See also:grand capitaine,"
He was recalled from Flanders, and immediately proceeded with his preparations for quelling the insurrection
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He joined the midland army under Sir John Ligonier, and was at once in pursuit of his See also:swift-footed foe
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But the retreat of Charles Edward from See also:Derby disconcerted his plans; and it was not till they had reached See also:Penrith, and the advanced portion of his army had been repulsed on See also:Clifton See also:Moor, that he became aware how hopeless an See also:attempt to overtake the retreating Highlanders would then be
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See also:Carlisle having been retaken, he retired to See also:London, till the See also:news of the defeat of See also:Hawley at See also:Falkirk roused again the fears of the See also:English people, and centred the hopes of See also:Britain on the royal duke
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He was appointed commander of the forces in See also:Scotland
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Having arrived in See also:Edinburgh on the 3oth of See also:January 1746, he at once proceeded in See also:search of the young Pretender
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He diverged, however, to See also:Aberdeen, where he employed his time in training the well-equipped forces now under his command for the See also:peculiar nature of the warfare in which they were about to engage
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What the old and experienced generals of his time had failed to accomplish or even to understand, the young duke of Cumberland, as yet only twenty-four years of age, effected with simplicity and ease
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He prepared to dispose his army so as to withstand with firmness that onslaught on which all Highland successes depended; and he reorganized the forces and restored their discipline and self-confidence in a few See also:weeks
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On the 8th of April 1946 he set out from Aberdeen towards See also:Inverness, and on the 15th he fought the decisive battle of See also:Culloden, in which, and in the pursuit which followed, the forces of the Pretender were completely destroyed
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He had become convinced that the sternest See also:measures were needed to break down the Jacobitism of the Highlanders
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He told his troops to take See also:notice that the enemy's orders were to give no See also:quarter to the " troops of the elector," and they took the hint
.
No trace of such orders remains (see See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
MURRAY, LORD GEORGE), and it is probable that Cumberland had merely received word of See also:wild talk in the enemy's See also:camp, which he credited the more easily as he thought that those who were capable of rebellion were cap-able of any See also:crime
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On See also:account of the merciless severity with which the fugitives were treated, Cumberland received the See also:nickname of the " See also:Butcher." That the implied taunt was unjust need not be laboured
.
It was used for See also:political purposes in England, and his own See also:brother, the prince of See also:Wales, encouraged, it appears, the virulent attacks which were made upon the duke
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In any See also:case there is a marked similarity between Cumberland's conduct in Scotland and that of See also:Cromwell in See also:Ireland
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Both dared to do acts which they knew would be See also:cast against them for the See also:rest of their lives, and terrorized an obstinate and unyielding enemy into submission
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How real was the danger of a protracted See also:guerrilla warfare in the See also:Highlands may be judged from the explicit declarations of Jacobite leaders that they intended to continue the struggle
.
As it was, the See also:war came to an end almost at once
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Here, as always, Cumberland preserved the strictest discipline in his camp
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He was inflexible in the See also:execution of what he deemed to be his See also:duty, without favour to any See also:man
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At the same time he exercised his See also:influence in favour of clemency in See also:special cases that were brought to his notice
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Some years later See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Wolfe spoke of the duke as " for ever doing See also:noble and generous actions."
The relief occasioned to Britain by the duke's victorious efforts was acknowledged by his being voted an income of £40,000 per annum in addition to his See also:revenue as a prince of the royal See also:house
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The duke took no See also:part in the Flanders See also:campaign of 1746, but in 1747 he again opposed the still victorious Marshal Saxe; and received a heavy defeat at the battle of Lauffeld, or Val, near Maestricht (2nd of See also:July 1747)
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During the ten years of See also:peace Cumberland occupied himself chiefly with his duties as captain-general, and the result of his See also:work was clearly shown in the conduct of the army in the Seven Years' War
.
His unpopularity, which had steadily increased since Culloden, interfered greatly with his success in politics, and when the See also:death of the prince of Wales brought a See also:minor next in See also:succession to the See also:throne the duke was not able to secure for himself the contingentregency, which was vested in the princess-See also:dowager of Wales
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In 1757, the Seven Years' War having broken out, Cumberland was placed at the See also:head of a See also:motley army of allies to defend See also:Hanover
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At Hastenbeck, near See also:Hameln, on the 26th of July 1757, he was defeated by the superior forces of D'See also:Estrees (see SEVEN YEARS' WAR)
.
In See also:September of the same year his defeat had almost become disgrace
.
Driven from point to point, and at last hemmed in by the French under See also:Richelieu, he capitulated at Klosterzeven on the 8th of the See also:month, agreeing to disband his army and to evacuate Hanover
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His disgrace was completed on his return to England by the king's refusal to be See also:bound by the terms of the duke's agreement
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In chagrin and disappointment he retired into private See also:life, after having formally resigned the public offices he held
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In his retirement he made no attempt to justify his conduct, applying in his own case the discipline he had enforced in others
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For a few years he lived quietly at See also:Windsor, and subsequently in London, taking but little part in politics
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He did much, however, to displace the See also:Bute See also:ministry and that of See also:Grenville, and endeavoured to restore See also:Pitt to office
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Public See also:opinion had now set in his favour, and he became almost as popular as he had been in his youth
.
Shortly before his death the duke was requested to open negotiations with Pitt for a return to power
.
This was, however, unsuccessful
.
On the 31st of See also:October 1765 the duke died
.
A Life of the. duke of Cumberland by See also:Andrew See also:Henderson was published in 1766, and See also:anonymous (See also:Richard Rolt) See also:Historical See also:Memoirs appeared in 1767
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See especially A
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See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell Maclachlan, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1876)
.
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